Excerpt from An Argument for Ireland The remarks at the end upon the present distress of Ireland, and the proposed remedies for it, as well as the summary historical Sketch of Poor Laws since their first institution in England, will not be thought inappropriate at this crisis, when the public mind is so occupied with those topics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.